State v. Cook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint for cruelty to animals, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence, by appeal of the defendant, to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The statute under which the accused is prosecuted enumerates various acts of cruelty to animals for which a punishment is imposed, among which are the depriving an animal of necessary sustenance, and the unnecessary failure, by one having the charge or custody of any animal, to provide it with proper food, drink, or protection from the weather.
In the Superior Court the State’s Attorney filed an information containing six counts. The first, second and third counts each alleges that the defendant, in the town of Clinton, while having the charge and custody of twenty-three horses, unlawfully…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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